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Specially worthy of notice is a large collection of Central Ameri- 
can Longicorns, compared with the types of the great work of 
Messrs. Godman and Salvin on the Zoology of Central America, 
which we owe to Messrs. Godman and Salvin. 
A fine collection of California Birds has been presented by 
Mr. King. 
To the Peabody Academy of Sciences of Salem we are again 
indebted for large additions to our collections of Fishes, Reptiles, 
Crustacea, Worms, and Insects. In many of the groups, the 
number of types contained in them renders this gift peculiarly 
valuable. 
A number of casts of fossil Vertebrates have been sent us by 
the Museums of Lyons, Prague, and Munich. The Museum has 
also purchased a good collection of palzozoic fossil corals from 
Mr. Green, of New Albany, Indiana. 
A large collection of Bohemian Cretaceous and Tertiary Fos- 
sils has been received from the Prague Museum. This collection 
takes the place of the Silurian Fossils left us in his will by the 
late Joachim Barrande, which would merely have duplicated the 
Schary collection of that period already in the Museum. A large 
number of glass models of Marine Invertebrates have been added 
to our series. 
Finally, a number of samples of bottom deposits, collected by the 
*“‘ Blake,” have been sent us by the United States Coast Survey. 
These, with a few additional interesting specimens from our for- 
mer collections, have been sent to Mr. John Murray for study. 
An assortment of Atlantic bottom deposits has also been sent to 
Messrs. Norman and Brady. A number of alcoholic specimens 
have been purchased from the Naples Zodlogical Station. Dr. 
Horn has kindly continued to fill the gaps in our collection of 
North American Coleoptera. 
The Museum is again indebted to Messrs. Brewster, Cabot, 
Slade, and Lyman, for their interest in behalf of their respective 
departments. 
As will be seen from Professor Hyatt’s Report, he has made an 
excellent beginning in the laborious work he has undertaken of 
arranging and preparing for exhibition our vast stores of Fossil 
Invertebrates. He has been assisted in this by Mr. Jackson. 
From the reports of the different Assistants, the condition of the 
collections continues excellent. We are little by little improving 
